Community- ch.1,2,3

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_____: a population group

aggregate

_______: systematic data collection about a population. This includes monitoring the populations health status and providing info. about the health of the community

Assessment

_______: the public health role of making sure that essential community- oriented health services are available.

assurance

________: occurs outside an institution. Services are provided to individuals and families in a community

community- based

_________: the provision of acute care and care for chronic health problems to individuals and families in the community.

Community- based nursing

_________: nursing practice in the community, with the primary focus on the health care of individuals, families, and groups in a community. The goal is to preserve, protect, promote, or maintain health.

community health nursing

_________: nursing that has as its primary focus the health care of either the community or a population of individuals, families, and groups.

community- oriented nursing

___________: broader in scope than community- based practice. A form of care in which the nurse provides health care after doing a community diagnosis to determine what conditions need to be altered so that indv., families, and groups in the community to stay healthy.

Community- oriented pracitce

_________: providing leadership in developing policies that support the health of the population

policy development

__________: a collection of people who share one or more personal or environmental characteristics

population

___________: emphasizes populations who live in a community.

population- focused

___________: the core of public health, a practice that emphasizes health protection, health promotion, and disease prevention of a population

population- focused practice

_______: both primary care and public health services that are designed to meet the basic needs of people in communities at an affordable cost.

primary health care services

_________: community efforts designed to prevent disease and promote health. It can be what members of society do collectively to ensure conditions that support health.

public health

_________: these include assessment, policy development, and assurance.

public health core functions

__________: a specialty of nursing that synthesizes nursing, social, and public health sciences to provide care to populations.

public health nursing

_________: services designed to detect and treat disease in the early acute stage.

secondary health care services

_________: subsets of the population who share similar characteristics.

subpopulations

__________: services designed to limit the progression of disease or disability.

tertiary health care services

_______: members are baccalaureate and higher degree nursing education programs. The association serves as the national voice for these programs.

American association of colleges of nursing (AACN)

_______: a national association for registered nurses in the United States, founded in 1896 as the Nurses associated alumnae of the U.S. and Canada

American nurses association (ANA)

______: national organization founded in 1872 to facilitate interdisciplinary efforts and promote public health.

American public health association (APHA)

________: a national organization founded in 1881 through the efforts of Clara Barton that today seeks to reduce human suffering through health, safety, and disaster- relief programs in affiliation with the international committee of the red cross.

American Red Cross

_______: pioneering nurse who established the Frontier Nursing Service to deliver community health services to families in rural Kentucky.

Mary Breckinridge

_______: a system in public health nursing in which a nurse was assigned to a geographic district in a town to provide a variety of health services for its residents.

district nursing

_______: provides community health services to rural families in Ky. Begun in 1925 by Mary Breckinridge when she developed outpost centers throuhgout the mountain areas in Ky to provide midwifery and nursing, medical, and dental care. A hospital was established and began operating in Hyden, Ky, in 1935.

Frontier Nursing Service (FNS)

_______: an early term for visiting nursing. Begun in Boston, it emphasized health education and care to families.

instructive district nursing

_______: a life insurance company that provided home nursing services for its beneficiaries and their families from 1909 to 1952.

Metropolitan life insurance company

_________: a national nursing organization that began as the american society of superintendents of training schools of nursing and later the national league for nursing education.

National league for nursing (NLN)

________: an English nurse who is credited with establishing nursing as a discipline

Florence Nightingale

________: agencies operated by state or local governments to provide a wide range of public health services, including community and public health nursing services.